‘Sacked Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey has accused Donald Trump of spreading “lies” about the FBI and suggested the US President pressured him to curtail the agency’s investigations into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election. But in a partial vindication for Mr Trump, the former FBI boss confirmed at a US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing the President was not personally being probed about the Trump campaign’s potential election collusion with Russia, at least up to the time Mr Comey was dismissed on May 9. US stock indices on Wall Street finished marginally higher on Thursday in the US, seemingly unaffected by Mr Comey’s testimony that fell short of definitively incriminating Mr Trump.’